Chloe Cole
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And in this day and age, you have – I mean girls are growing up with so much pressure with social media, what they're seeing, these very perfected images of grown women that they have to compare themselves to.
And in the midst of all that, I was like, I'm not even – I don't even feel like I'm that feminine.
I don't like wearing makeup.
I don't like the feminine things that a lot of other girls do.
And I find that I relate a lot more to my older brothers.
Why am I even going through this?
What is the point of going through all this if I don't feel like I'm enough as a woman?
So that feeling started very young, but I didn't actually believe that I was a young man or that I was something different until I was about 12 years of age.
I mean, this has become something of a global phenomenon, I would argue.
And this is – I actually know a woman from Nebraska who went through all this at the same age.
Not a little bit younger actually and came out with the same outcome.
I've been to so many places across the U.S.
now, speaking on legislation, speaking to different communities, speaking to churches, as well as college campuses.
And everywhere I've gone, I've met somebody who's either struggling with this or they know somebody who is struggling with it, but they don't know how to really help them.
And I think what it really comes down to is Internet influence.
I think that, sure, media and even sometimes one's family might be influencing them into questioning these things.
But I think the...
I think the most prominent influence in the lives of these children who become confused about their sex and about their bodies is the influence of the internet.
And that certainly was what it was for me.